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"The Godfather Effect"Changing Hollywood, America, and Me With Author Tom SantopietroThursday, February 286:30 PM Light fare and refreshments will be served.Space is Limited. RSVP's encouraged and appreciated. Using excerpts from "The Godfather Trilogy," Tom Santopietro guides guests through a journey that examines the continuing hold Francis Fo...

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An untold chapter in WWII history, the story of the corps of unlikely soldiers who saved Italy's most precious art and architecture from destruction.   Author Ilaria Dagnini Brey is a journalist and translator who was born in Padua, Italy. She now lives in New York City with her husband, Carter Brey, the principal cellist of the New York Phi...

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You are cordially invited to attend a lecture and book signing for Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock's new book entitled, "Italy Invades: How Italians Conquered the World" at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, October 29th. Refreshments will be servedAbout the Book: Recreating their success with America Invades, Christopher Kelly and...

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Recently the Hamilton Township Public Library in Mercer County was the recipient of a donation of over one hundred books and other publications, written in Italian, donated by Cav. Mario A. Marano of Toms River, NJ. Hamilton Township and Mercer County have a large population of Italians and Italian Americans. The books are mostly text books coverin...

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di Emanuele Pettener   Sono un Italoamericano. Anche se appartengo a quella generazione, sbarcata in America all'alba del 2000, che non lo ammetterà mai. Siamo emigranti (siamo venuti a studiare e lavorare negli Stati Uniti perché in Italia non c'erano possibilità, non c'era lavoro) abbiamo un senso della patria molto flebile (suvvia, non si...

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If you meet Michelle for the first time, you can't help but be impressed from her beautiful brown eyes as well as her big smile. Michelle is only 8 years old, but the way she introduces herself makes of her a grown up girl.   Michelle was born in San Francisco and, because of the family's Italian origins, she was soon taken to Venice, in Ita...

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WTI Magazine #63    2015 June, 27Author : John Cabot University      Translation by:   Curling up with a good book is one of life's simple pleasures. And while John Cabot University boasts one of the best academic English language collections in Rome, part of the attraction of studying in the Eternal City is venturing off campus to explore its ma...

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Joseph Papaleo (1925–2004) was considered the grandfather of Italian American writing. He was a best-selling author who won the Guggenheim and American Book Award, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize Award for his short stories collection, Italian Stories. Joseph Papaleo retained a profound sense of infe...

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June 2013 - Los Angeles - Italian Cultural Institute   A conversation with the authors of the novels selected as finalists for the 2013 edition of the Premio Strega that includes Los Angeles as the only USA location for one of its readers Committes around the world.   The prestigious Premio Strega is an Award presented in Ro...

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by James Pasto   In the first chapter of her excellent and enjoyable book "Gravy Wars," Lorraine Ranalli states that the term gravy is "unique" to South Philly Italians. By "gravy" she means what most people call "sauce" — that tomato-ey stuff that goes on pasta.   I met Lorraine a few years ago when she was at a reading with Lisa Cap...

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